Tankcrimes

Current/ex-members of Operation Ivy, Neurosis and Dystopia play British-style punk in Kicker.

Brainoil reflect on Singularity to Extinction, their first album in seven years.

Tickets for the eighth annual Decibel Magazine Tour, featuring co-headliners Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel, with support from Immolation (select dates), Necrot and Blood Incantation, are ON SALE NOW!

Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Immolation, Necrot and Blood Incantation unite for Decibel’s latest American live campaign this February. Tickets on sale Friday, November 16 at 10am local time.

Embrace darkness and misanthropy with Brainoil‘s Singularity to Extinction.

Hear a new song from punk/metal unit Violation Wound now.

Mortuous‘ Through Wilderness is our Best New Noise.

Go inside the womb and hear a new song from deathgrind maniacs Deathgrave.

Our resident birdbrains says goodbye and good riddance to 2017 with his end-of-year list.

Blood Offerings
Axe of the unspeakable
dB rating: 9/10

Necrot unleash sickening, aggressive death metal from they prepare to give Blood Offerings. 

Stream the wild new Fuck You Pay Me album before its release date!

Stoner/sludge punks Connoisseur show off what they do “All Day Every Day” in a new, 4/20 friendly video.

Alpha Ghoul
Lactose tolerant
dB rating: 8/10

Dungeon Bastards
10-Sided DIEDIEKILLKILL
dB rating: 8/10

Creepsylvanian death/thrash miscreants Ghoul join the Decibel Flexi Series.

The second Brainsqueeze Fest put on by our friends at Tankcrimes was held last weekend in lovely Oakland. Our friend and frequent Decibel contributor Raymond Ahner was onhand for the second day to capture the festivities and document them. Check out our exclusive photo gallery below courtesy of Ray.

Live in California or fancy travel? The second Brainsqueeze Fest is coming to Oakland in April via our friends at Tankcrimes. Get your super passes now and check out the sick running order below. Decibel is happy to premiere the new ad as well. Friday 4/18 – Oakland Metro – all ages, bar w/ ID…

Readers might already have a heads up on the new Cannabis Corpse album From Wisdom To Baked, due this spring (if not check out the studio short in our February issue). The band also has a “joint” project with Ghoul that’s out now on Tankcrimes. Stream the entire Splatterhash split below and order it here….

Today we close down operations for the Wednesday afternoon Deciblog in 2013 with one more batch of awesome. Thank you to the people and bands who have contributed, been interviewed or offered up their work for public appraisal on hump day this year. Iron Reagan has received a lot of love in our world: Worse…

The Dutch hardcore band Vitamin X has been at it for fifteen years. While that might not seem like a huge stretch compared to, say, Sick Of It All it’s still a nice run in a time of short lived bands and one-man projects started in your neighbor’s basement. Their fifth album About To Crack…

We already had occasion to cream our jeans a couple weeks back in anticipation of this awesome Toxic Holocaust/Municipal Waste split 12″ on Tankcrimes Records, but now we have the pleasure of tantalizing you with two(!) tracks from said four-song EP. This nut-busting coupling of two of our favorite thrashers comes in a number of…

Honestly, it’s pretty fucking close. Municipal Waste and Toxic Holocaust, two bands that, as Tankcrimes honcho Scotty Heath says, “brought thrash back from the basements to the big stage” join forces on the Toxic Waste 12-inch. Savor that genius for a second. While we’ve only got the art available for you right now, (courtesy of…

The Deciblog took to sober prayer and genuine concern when Cannabis Corpse brought their marijuana death metal party through Europe. The big worry was in the logistics: just how were four weed-obsessed death metal dudes from Richmond, VA going to negotiate over ten border controls, navigate themselves across the continent without some Midnight Express fucking…